Harley Benton TE-80 NT Deluxe Series Reviews

Beautiful instrument

Guitar can play. Needs work.

Love this Guitar

As a pro that uses Fender, Martins and Gibson guitars I wasn't expecting much. I was totally surprised! Never bought a guitar that didn't need to be set up. Straight out of the box. Tuned it up and it played beautifully. The fret board is flatter than a Fender but I prefer it. I had to have the fret board of my Strat flattened. The finish is flawless. Pickups are quite.

Only drawbacks are the weight, but no heavier than my Fender J-Bass and possibly the pickups. Those can be changed out.

Overall, I really like this guitar. Looking into the ST90SA next.

A few tweaks from perfection

First off, this guitar is a steal for the price. The finish on the guitar I received is blemish free and beautiful. The fret work is very good for a guitar in this price range. No sharp ends or extremely high frets. Intonation was pretty darn close out of the box. Tuners and pots actually seem quite decent, however, I'll be replacing the tone capacitor with an orange drop and the nut with a graphite one. Pickups are pretty decent. Neck is very fat and the bridge is very chimey. Volume output in the middle position is a bit Les than the other 2 for some reason though. The only reason I've given this a 4 star quality rating instead of 5 is because I had to shim the neck. Not a big deal, but it could be a deal breaker for someone that doesn't have any experience working on guitars. Again, for the price this guitar is an awesome deal.

Prince on a budget

What a great guitar for the money, after replacing the string trees and a bit of a tweak on the set up this is fantastic.

Excellent Value

The pickups are all that let this guitar down they are a bit in your face and over bight. Otherwise I can't criticise it

Not as described

Be warned. The one I just received has a black bound fretboard. The neck and fretwork is excellent but it doesn’t look right. This needs to be listed in the description.

Became parts for a tribute build

This is a VERY inexpensive guitar and you should keep that in mind. I think they built it to too low of a price point and I hope they revise the model in the future. The fret ends were like razors, the pickups sounded anemic, the bridge felt like it was made of plastic. I used this as the basis for a Prince tribute build and replaced all the electronics and hardware and touched up the frets. It all worked out OK but it took a lot of work to end up with a working instrument. But the whole guitar costs less than many raw telecaster bodies. If you want something to hang on the wall or to experiment with guitar building this could be the place to start.

To Heavy

Very heavy guitar,not one for a 2 hr gig

the only thing wrong was one of the tuners was slightly crooked,an easy fix though.If that was corrected I would give it five stars

Beautiful guitar, nice neck, haven’t taken the time to do some mods as of yet. Needs tuners upgraded, nut is cut to high. Will be changing nut to a graph tech and replacing tuners with locking , pickups and doing some fret work. Not sure what PU’s to use. Open for suggestions, current pickups lack character, very skinny . With a few things and a little work I am looking forward to a great looking, playing guitar.

Well built for the money

Well built for the money...not quite an exact copy of a MadCat...pick-guard is not correct, binding & center strip look like they are painted on...not real binding or wood strip.

I really like this guitar

I bought this guitar and I use it in studio and live. It's heavy but I realy like how it sounds.

Great!!

Construction is so solid!! Great axe!!

NT Teleacaster

Love this guitar some weight in it. I am a big Prince Fan so its nice to have a copy very like the copies from 1980's made by Hohner

Sounds good bright sound from the pick ups. As a very heavy guitar i would do a whole gig with it, Quality the guitar is finished well. This guitar looks the part so for any prince Fan its a must

HB TE-80 Is Hot

Just received my HB- TE-80-NT Deluxe. plugged it in and its HOT.

Sounds Great. The Feel of the neck is pleasant and smooth the craftsmanship is excellent and the guitar is simply beautiful.

And You like the Prince Style Tele , this is the 1 for you.

Great Deal

A couple of minor flaws, but fit and finish is overall excellent and comparable to instruments costing 10 times as much. I did not expect to like the Roswell pickups, but I do, quite a lot.

Go ahead and buy it. You won't be sorry.

Nice Looking, average sound, but sooooooo Heavy!!

I?m no great player, more of a long suffering learner. I have a handful of acoustics, a Squier strat and a mid range Squier tele made of pine. I thought the tele was insanely heavy until I got this Harley. My tutor has a custom Fender Tele made of ash and you can pick it up with two fingers, the Harley requires a strong arm to lift and gets uncomfortable on a strap. Soundwise it?s a little shrill, not much buzz or rattle. Well finished, frets good, nice lacquer. But how did they get so much weight out of a piece of ash?

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Sadly, very poor quality guitar.

Sound is good enough, if you can get rid of the buzz.

Lacquer on pickguard peeled off.

Such a GREAT BUY!

Such a GREAT BUY! This is an excellent tribute to the Prince MADCAT guitar. Just take note...although it LOOKS like a Tele, it sounds more like a Strat! You can make it twang a bit like a Tele, it just ISN'T a Tele (pickups, bridge, saddles)

That stated, I'd still recommend this guitar! it's a unique build and sound and I think it's look is totally cool! LOVE the binding on the FRONT and BACK of body. LOVE the "skunk stripe"! LOVE the double pick guard!

It IS heavier due to the ASH body, but that adds to the sound.

My friend and band mate played the TE-80 NT and now he's ordering one too!

YOU CAN'T MAKE A MISTAKE WITH THIS GUITAR! ESPECIALLY FOR THE PRICE! It's build quality is excellent. It's sound is GREAT! GREAT BUY! I going to buy another Harley Benton guitar! They've figured it out!

On a quiet note.

The appearance and playability of the guitar is good. I seem to be having a problem with the volume output of the " D " string. It is noticeably quieter than the rest of the strings I don't think the pole pieces are adjustable so I intend to fit a small, powerful magnet to the underside of the "D" pole piece to see if this will boost the volume.